Susan Rice

Susan Elizabeth Rice (17 November 1964-) was the US Ambassador to the United Nations from 26 January 2009 to 30 June 2013 (succeeding Zalmay Khalilzad and preceding Samantha Power) and National Security Advisor from 1 July 2013 to 20 January 2017 (succeeding Thomas E. Donilon and preceding Michael Flynn).

Biography
Susan Elizabeth Rice was born in Washington DC in 1964, and she worked as a foreign policy aide to Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis in 1988 before becoming a management consultant. From 1993 to 1997, she served on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council, and she served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1997 to 2001. In 2004, she served as an advisor to John Kerry during his presidential bid, and she became a senior foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama in 2008. Obama appointed Rice to be the first African-American woman to represent the United States at the UN, and she declined Obama's nomination to serve as Secretary of State due to controversy surrounding her alleged ill-preparedness for the 2012 Benghazi attack. She went on to serve as National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2017, and she retired with the end of the administration. In 2018, she briefly considered challenging Maine Republican US Senate incumbent Susan Collins after she voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh.